Suspensory-bandage



(No Mode1l) J. CODMAN.

SUSPENSORY BANDAGE.

No. 254,799. Ptented Mar.-14.1882;

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UNITED STATES PATENT Ferca,

JOHN OODMAN, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETTS.

SUSPNSORY-BANDAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,799, dated March 14, 1882.

Application filed January 23, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it muy concern Be it known that I, JOHN CODMAN, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk, of the State of Massachusetts, have nvented a new and useful Improvement in Suspensory-Bandages; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of a suspensorybandage containing my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

Myimprovementis applicable to suspensorybandages whose scrotum-sac is either provided with oris without posterior straps, to lead backward from the lower part of the mouth of the sae, between the legs ofthe wearer, and thence upward to the body-belt. In either case the improvement is productive ot one or more new and useful results.

In carrying out my nvention I combine with the scrotum-sac and its sustaining waisthelt a strap (either elastic or inelastic) and a buckle to operate therewith, the buckle and strap to be fastened to the belt-that is to say, the strap at one end of it is secured to the belt, and from thence passes around the mouth of the sao, through loops or guides attached to the sae. Thence the strap is to engage with the buckle, all being as shown in the drawings, in which A denotes the body-band, made in two sections, a b, connected by buekles o o.

B is a scrotum-sae; C, the contracting or supporting strap; D, its buckle, and d d, &c., the loops or guides through which the said strap 0 passes. The sae, as usual, has its mouth at its rear, and its penis-receivin g opening e at its front. The posterior straps are represented at j f, they being fastened to-the lower part of the mouth of the sao.

Instead of attaching the strap C to the bodybelt, such strap, at its middle, may be fixed to the scrotum-sac, at the lower part of the mouth thereof,-and instead of one bucklc to operate with the Strap there may be two of them attached to the belt, the free ends of the strap in such case being passed through the buckles. Iprefer, however, to have but one buckle, and

the strap secured at one of its ends only to the belt.

In lieu of one or more buckles to co-operate with the strap C, said strap may have in it a series of button-holes or eyelets, and there may be to the body-belt one or more studs or buttons, to engage with the strap, such, to a certain extent, being equivalents for a buckle or buckles; but it is preferable to have a buckle or buckles, as adjustment and contraction of the mouth of the sao can be better effected by them." So, in some cases, instead of a buckle or buckles, one or more loops or rings may be used to project from the belt and receive the ends of the str-ap, which are afterwa'rd to be tied or buckled together.

The strap 0 is to draw upward the sae and contract its mouth, in order not only to sup port the scrotum to better advantage, but to prevent it from suddenly esoaping from or working or slpping, in whole or in part, out of the sao, as it is liable to do when it (the sae) is withoutthestrap. Furthermore,thestrapcounteraets the downward and backward strain of the posterior straps, and relieves the penis from thedownward strain of the sae induced by the posterior straps. With the strap C the suspensory-bandage, whether having posterior straps or being without them, is very much improved, and can be adj usted and supported to better ad Vantage to properly sustain the scrotum and testicles with comfort to the wearer.

lam aware that the sae of a suspensory-bandage has been made witha Contractile and expansive or elastic mouth to receive the scrotum, in which case the mouth was automatically contracted, and generally fitted too closely to the scrotum to be comfortable to the wearer; but with a Strap and buckle or buckles arranged with the sao and the body-belt in manner as described the disadvantage of the automatically-contractile mouth is overeome, and the sae can be adjusted and sustained rela tivel y to the scrotum to afford to it the necessary support and maintain it within the sao.

I am aware that the sae of a suspensorybandage has been fitted or supplied with strings, bands, or tapes arranged in it in acircuitous manner, and to come out at the sides of it, such Strings, bands, or tapes being simply for eontracting the sae transversely upon the scrotum, all of Which differs in principle or operation from my improvement, and is not claimed by me.

I claim as my invention as follows, viz:

In combination with a suspensory-bandage, acontracting and supporting strap, C, passing around the scrotum-sac at or near its inner edge, and secured to the body-Delta independ- 10 ently of the sae by one or more buckles applied to such belt, all being substantially and to 0perate as set forth.

JOHN CODMAN. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRAT1. 

